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In Belgium's, Luxembourg, and France forested Ardennes region, German soldiers staged a surprise attack on Allied forces. The Germans did this to push out the Allies but in the end Germany lost a bunch of resources, many soldiers, tanks and aircrafts, because of this the Allies got to invide Germany. The Battle ended January 25, 1945.
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The start of the bombing was with a USAAF Eighth Air Force. Allied firebombing operations commence against Dresden, Germany, reducing the "Florence of the Elbe" to ruins and flames and killing around 25,000 people.
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The strategic importance of Iwo Jima to the US war effort could hardly be overstated. Taking the island meant more than capturing the Japanese country symbolically. It also meant that American bombs with fighter escorts could fly over Japan. It was also when the rose the flag for all the Marines that died.
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After 12 years as US president, Franklin D Roosevelt dies from a massive stroke. He had led his country tirelessly through some of its most turbulent times to the impending defeat of Nazi Germany, and with the Japanese in full retreat.
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Adolf Hitler, shut up in a bunker under his Berlin headquarters, commits suicide by taking a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon later, Germany surrendered unconditionally to Allied forces, putting an end to Hitler's fantasy of a "1,000-year" Reich.
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Operation Iceberg, better known as the Battle of Okinawa. It was the largest amphibious landing in World War II's Pacific region. It also resulted in the highest number of losses, with over 100,000 Japanese and 50,000 Allied casualties. This article details the 80-day war for the island of Okinawa, which has been dubbed the "typhoon of steel" by some. This is also when the United States took the last island the Japanese had.
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V-J day, is Victory over Japan day. Japan finally surrendered after 2 atomic bomb were dropped on there cities World War II, one of the deadliest and most destructive wars in history, comes to an end.